Wire-fence stay.



No. 795,818. PATENTED AUG, 1, 1905. T. M. GONNER. WIRE FENCE STAY.

APPLICATION FILED JAN, 19, 1904.

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THEODORE M. OONNER, OF KOKOMO, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO- THIRDS TO JOHN B. DOUGAN, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA, AND

THOMPSONM. CONNER, OF KOKOMO, INDIANA.

WIRE-FENQE STAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 1, 1905.

Application filed January 19,1904. Serial No. 189,667.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THEODORE M. OoNNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kokomo, in the county of Howard and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wire-Fence Stays, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in wire fences. It deals, however, more especially with the connecting of the stay-wires to the longitudinal wires or stringers, having in view to provide for the binding or securing of the stay-wires upon the stringers and the interlocking of the alining stays quickly and in a simple and effective manner.

Said invention consists of certain structural features, substantially as hereinafter more fully disclosed by the following description and specifically pointed out by the claim concluding said description.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment of my. invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a section of a wire fence with said invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detached side view similar to Fig. 1 with one stringer and coiled wire member omitted. Fig. 3 is also a perspective view of two stay-wires disassociated. Fig. 4 is a cross-section through astringer or longitudinal wire. Fig. 5 is a broken perspective view disclosing two interlocked stay-wires.

In carrying out my invention I construct or erect the fence of longitudinal wires or stringers l, suitably secured to posts, (not shown,) and of vertical wires or stays 2, bracing said longitudinal wires or stringers in position. Said longitudinal stringers although each being shown as a plane wire may be coiled or crimped and be formed of any number or multiple of wire strands, as may be desired. Said vertical wires or stays out the requisite length, according to the intervals the stringers are arranged apart or the number thereof employed, are each produced at its ends with spiraled or coiled portions 2* 2, one spiraled or coiled portion 2* at one end of each stay terminating in a bow or U- shaped portion 2 intermediately of said coiled portion and the stay proper. Said bow or U- shaped portion, however, has its yoke or arcuate portion extending in a plane parallel to the longitudinal plane of the coiled or spiraled portion and in a plane parallel with and laterally and not 'astride of the longitudinal wire or stringer, as clearly shown as to the first characteristic thereof in several of ,the figures of the drawings and as to the latter peculiarity more especially in Fig. 4E. Said bow or U portion, therefore, as the coiled or spiraled portions of any two stays are interlocked, as presently more fully explained, passes behind or in between the opposite stay and the longitudinal wire or stringer, the two thus interlocked stays extending by each other laterally and upon the same side of said stringer in opposite vertical directions. The coiled or spiraled portions of said stays are produced or formed with spaces between their respective turns or limbs to permit of any two meeting coiled portions to be turned or Wound, as it were, one into the other and whereby the terminal'bow or U portion of one coil portion is enabled to be passed behind and beyond the stay terminating the other coiled portion, thus interlocking the two stays both as against movement upon the stringer and with relation to one another.

It will be noted from the foregoing that the stays are not required to be either looped around one another nor tied or twisted together either in effecting their connection to.

stay-wires each having at its ends coiled portions, with spaced-apart turns or limbs,

one such coiled portion having a bowed or U portion arranged'parallel to the general or longitudinal plane of said coiled portion and In testimony whereof I have signed my name i to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THEODORE M. (JONNER.

Witnesses:

ISAAC WILSON, E. H. HARRIS. 

